The Post-Imperial Age: The Great Powers and the Wider World: International Relations Since 1945: A History in Two Volumes

ISBN-13: 9781138162921 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 572 str.

J. P. D. Dunbabin

Opis

This volume examines the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries.

Spis treści

Preface.  Part One: Decolonization.  1. General considerations.  2. Indonesia, Indochina, India.  3. The end of Empire.  4. Southern Africa.  Part Two: East Asia and the Pacific.  5. The Chinese Civil War.  6. The Indochinese Wars.  7. Japan.  8. The Pacific Rim.  Part Three: The Middle East.   9. The setting, Britain's post-war pursuit of bases, Cyprus.  10. Palestine to the establishment of the state of Israel.  11. The Middle East in the 1950s.  12. The 1967 `Six Day' War and its aftermath: the Lebanese Civil War (1975 -90).  13. Arab-Israeli relations since 1970.
14. Oil.  15. Arabia and the Gulf.  Part Four: The Americans.  16. The inter-American political system, and attempts to exclude communism.  17. The Americas in, and since, the 1980s.  Appendix: The Falklands, and the Antarctic. 
Part Five: The International System.   18. The nature of, and leadership in, the international system; attempts at collective action through the United Nations.  19. Money and trade in the Western World. Index.

O autorze

J.P.D. Dunbabin